The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-23
FACT AND FANCY.

but graduates OF that college.
! A Brooklyn Alderman is accused Of wearing
bit of plate glass as diamond.
A woman has just died In Cuba, after mucl
hesitation, at the age Of 1913 years
The young ladies Of Crystal Springs, Miss
have organized military company.
An Icelander is In Washington Territor,
looking for place TO locate colony.
Shoes made OF rice straw are worn by the
laborlng people In the south Of China.
Last year the United States outstrIppet
Great Britain In Bessemer steel production.
The great southern comet, of which &c
much was expected, will soon be invisible.
In the Princeton Theological Seminary Their,
is student who is slxty-eight years OF age.
Chlorofom was discovered in 1881 by DR.
Samuel Guthrie, of Sacke,ts llarbor, n. Y.
The average age Of thosewho enter college In
this country is seventeen A century ago Il
was fourteen.
Asphalt has been discovered in Morgan
county, Ala. 1t is the only known deposit ii
the United States.
The rolling mills throughout Western
PENNSYLVANIA and Eastern Ohio are crowded
with orders for several weeks.
The Colorado Supreme Court has decided
that women can not act as notaries public In
that State under existing laws.
DIR. Smith, aged seventy-fvc, and Ann
King aged elghty-two, both of Mecosta Co..
Michigan, married each other recently.
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, wiz soor
be turning out one million tons of pig iror
out Of the less than seven million tons made
Mrs. j. W. Smith, of Orange, N. j., 10 n IA
nous tricycist During the past year SHE
rode 2,G43 miles, 2,22S of which were with hei
husband.
The National School of Education and Ora
tory, of Philadelphia, will hold a summer term
of six weeks at Ann Arbor, Mich, beginning
early in July.
NJ. Chevreul, the eminent French chemist,
now l0l years old, attends meetings of the
French Academy and takes an active share In
the proceedings.
John Fox, while tobogganing near Durand,
Wis, ran against COW and tripped he: up.
The COW fell upon him and injured him so Sc
verely that he may die.
Gen. Grosvenor, President OF the National
Union League, has called meeting OF the
National Council, to be held at the Ebbitt
house. Washington, March l.
monument to the late General James b.
Steedman is to be unveiled at Toledo, May 90.
General j. c. Smith, Lieutenant Governor OF
Illinois, will deliver the GRAFTON.
A reforner who wants fifty men to agree &c
help him introduce the fashion OF knee breech
es in Chicago, Is said to have more than hall
that number on his list pleged to adopt the
change
West Newberry (iass,) farmer recently
sent two tons OF cabbage to Boston commits
sion house, and after the freight, commission
and storage had been deducted he had only
o. cents left.
Despite his sonorous voice and distinct enun
citation, Lord Randolph Churchill is terror
to reporters, because Of the stupidity OF his
speech. He seldom falls below the rate of loo
words minute.
A young man who attended the Land
League fair at Hudson, N. Y, says the young
ladies coaxed him to spend all the money he
had with him, and then to borrow from them
aud spend more.
An Owasso (Mich.) casket company re-
ceiyed an order from Dubuque, Iowa, which
had the following proscript: Put in one OF
the Baskets a gallon Of Old Grow, and bill II
embalming fluid.
The library Of George Washington, pur.
chased in lS4S at a cost of $1,000, is one OF
the many interesting collections which have
come into the possession Of the Boston
Atheneum Library.
The devotion ~ young man attending =
prayer meeting In one Of the churches In ST.
Mary's. Cenada, the other night, was disturb
ed by mouse running up the leg OF his pants
while he was kneellng.
A Dakota woman In the Upper James valley
decided that she wanted fur cloak. She be-
gan trapp ny mink and tanning the skins.
These she sent to st. Paul. where they have
Just been made into beautiful cloak for
which she was offered SIPS.
The mother Of young woman in Oakland,
CAL, who had injured her health by too much
study, offered her ten cents for every squirrel
she would shoot. The daughter took TO the
woods, and In one week recently shot eighty |
five squirrels. and is fast regaining her health.
William Pinkerton, the Chicago detective, !
whose latest piece Of work was the capture of
the men who murdered Express Messenger
Nichols In his car year ago and stole s2l 900,
is Hercules In build. standing over six feet
and weighing go pounds.
Victor Emanueps monument in the Pan
theou OF Naples consists Of huge bronze tab
lei, seven feet high and sixteen feet long, sur
mounted by Roman eagle which measures
ten feet in breadth of wing. The whole is
made OF the bronze of old cannons.
A trampwho was stealing n ride through